Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-06-20

HgnC. All THIS IaIh ABOUT canuIudGto
IS superfuous and of secondary i'm
portance, as compared with the main
question of party principle and poll
cv. For some years past there has
been a noticeable tendency in parties
TO ignore principles and become mere
liz the opponents of individual lead
ers. 1t has been said along back,
and with some show of truth, THAT
there were no issues''-that there
was no principle involved in our cam
paigns. This can not be said now,
ut any rate. There are many import
ant issues at stake, and the parties
and their leaders must face the mu-
sic at last.
The New Hampshire Legislature on
Tuesday elected Hon. ". f. Chan
der L. ). senator for the unexpired
term of the late Senator Pike. The
republicans were solid for Chandler,
there being but a single scattering
vote. The vote in the senate was
Harry Bingham, democrat, 8, Chan
dler, republican, 10. In the house
the vote was 5. @. Griffin Of keene,
/, Joseph Wentworth of Concord l.,
Gilman Marston 4, Harry Bingham
1876, W. Z. Chandler 165. The votes
for Marston were cast BY democrats
with the hope of making a break
among the republicans against Chan
dler, but it was a failure. The vote
for Wentworth was given by Mr..
Todd, independent, and that for
Gen. Griffin by Mr.. Young of Roch-
ester. Every member of both houses
was present, except Mr.. Gould, dem
ocrat. Wednesday both houses met
in Joint convention, compared the
records and made the final declaration
of Mr.. Chambers election.
No matter how complacently the
English government may look upon
the tide of emigration sweeping out
of Ireland, or with what secrecy it
connives at the releasing of convict
prisoners prematurely with the IN
Outstanding that they shall not settle
in any English colony, Uncle Sam
should be on the alert to resist the
entrance here of either paupers or
criminals. For honest immigrants
who can pay their way, and who pos
themselves and to live on the fruit of
their honest toll, we can afford to
have the heartiest welcome. There
is no danger, necessarily, in the COM
pOsite life which will result from
their coming. But paupers who love
pauperdom, criminals welded to
crime, are not the class of citizens
we desire; we have enough of our
own raising. Welcome to the honest
immigrant, but a pointed toe and
hearty kick-out to the lazy and dis
honest, is the policy for Uncle Sam.
Messenger.
The reaction against free trade on
the continent of Europe continues I'M
abated. France has recently increas-
ed the duties on imported food prod
ucts, and Belgium, which has adhered
steadily to free trade since Cobden's
time, is now taxing imported cattle
and meat, and will speedily revert to
duties on corn. England's economic
policy has been abandoned by every
European nation that has tried it.
Here are the chief causes for the con-
tinental revolt against Cobdenism.
The first is the excessive cost of the
military establishments maintained
throughout Europe. These vast ex-
penditures involve a necessity for
great revenues, and tariffs are far
less unpopular than any system of di-
rect taxation. The second cause is
the economic progress and boundless
prosperity Of the United States under
protection. Facts outweigh theories
in the practical experience of nations.
American progress is the one great
fact in the modern science Of political
economy that has paralyzed the en-
ergies of Cobdenism. The third
cause is the disastrous effect of Amer
lean competition upon European ag-
ricultural industries The prospect
i've ruin of farming interests has caus-
ed widespread alarm in Germany,
Belgium and France, and a reversion
to corn laws is forcing itself upon the
attention Of legislators as a national
policy of imperious necessity.
Russia is taking the immigration
problem in hand in her own imperial
way. A ukase has been issued by
the Gar forbidding foreigners to &C
quire estates on the western frontier
of the Empire. Though it is directed
at all classes Of foreigners it is in
tended to apply principally to the
Germans. There are in Russia so
many German factories, workshops.
warehouses and farms, the productions
OF which are the profits of Germans
exclusively, that the Russian govern
ment regards them as detrimental to